''The Mendocino Beacon'' is a

weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly n ...

for the community of

Mendocino, California Mendocino ( Spanish for "of Mendoza") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States. Mendocino is located south of Fort Bragg at an elevation of . The population of the CDP was 9 ...

, owned by MediaNews Group.

History

''The Mendocino Beacon'' was founded on October 6, 1877 by W. H. Meacham and William Heeser,. an immigrant from Germany who also founded the '' Fort Bragg Advocate-News'' and three other local newspapers in Kibesillah, Rockport, and Westport. It succeeded the ''Star'', a local newspaper that had been founded previously by M. J. C. Galvin. In an 1878 catalog of North American newspapers the ''Beacon'' was advertised as "an independent and vigorous weekly journal, published at a point of rising importance as a place of shipping and trade.". From 1975 to 1977 it was published under an alternative name, the ''Mendocino Coast Beacon''.Library of Congress catalogue information
retrieved 2010-08-21. In 2000, the newspaper offices moved from Mendocino to Fort Bragg, ten miles north of Mendocino, and consolidated with the offices of the ''Fort Bragg Advocate-News''.

Recognition

In the 2009

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's "Better Newspaper Contest", the Mendocino Beacon won first place in its circulation category for a business/financial story, for a story on Heritage House by Frank Hartzell. It has also won similar awards in previous years..

References

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